God and the Imagination On Poets, Poetry, and the Ineffable |
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| Author:
| Mariani, Paul |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8203-5238-1 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2017 |
| Publisher: | University of Georgia Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $84.95 |
Book Description:
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Poet, critic, biographer and Catholic intellectual, Paul Mariani delivers huge armfuls of experience and knowledge in this wide-ranging collection of twenty-four essays. Mariani brings to light issues surrounding spirituality and poetry through discussions of the Gnostics, Roman history, the Bible, John of the Cross, Rilke, Robert Pack, Galway Kinnell, Philip Levine, and the poets he most admires.
Poet, critic, biographer and Catholic intellectual, Paul Mariani delivers huge armfuls of experience and knowledge in this wide-ranging collection of twenty-four essays. Mariani brings to light issues surrounding spirituality and poetry through discussions of the Gnostics, Roman history, the Bible, John of the Cross, Rilke, Robert Pack, Galway Kinnell, Philip Levine, and the poets he most admires.